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WORLD, FRIDAY, MABOH '4, 1921.
THE EVENING
"Hi
SiTANOARD OIL, DICTATING
OAS RATES IN N. Y,
CHARGES
"ALL TRAFFIC WILL BEAR"
; Gas Companies Let Coal GaS,
Plants Go to Ruin, Thus
Aiding Monoply.
IS THERE A CONSPIRACY?
Standard OilofN.Y. and S. O.
oT N. J. Seem to Play Into
Each Other's Hands.
Sir
If '
" Increased use of automobiles, and
K&sellna cnclneu and extension of oil
burjilne systems for heating and
driving ships and locomotives have
taado possible tlie boosting of gas
rat's to fl.M In New Vork City, ac
cording to Col. William Hayward,
ceilBeel tor the Public Service Com-
'SttsUbn In the gas rate oases.
Col. Uayward has cumpiled evi-
. denko to show that In the final analy
sis $t Is thi Standard Oil Company
ttmi fixes ens rates and not the Con
solidated Gas Company. This ovi-
dectee will be used In future proceed
Inge for the fulnc of an oinolal rate.
This situation has come about
thrffutb the Standard's control of the
oil 'market and development of gaa
ptaata tor making oil gas at the ex
pense of the coal gas plants. Now,
according to CoL Hayward and his
(utsovtate, Major John Uolley Clark
Jr., peculiar market changes have
mode It more profitable for ' the
Standard Oil Interests to pay less ul
leetOa to thetr gas oontjuny holding"
tmOi leave them to their own devices.
GAS COMPANIES PAY TWICE
MARKET PfllCE FOR COAL GaS.
Tt gas oil for which the Consoli
dated is now paying Uio Standard Oil
12JI cenia por fiaiJun, ailhuugtl Ule
opeli uiarket prlco Is lese tuan 6 cents,
formerly was thrown away as waste
kftfrr the korowene had been taken out.
'KeKJauiiu ut uuai lunu vviu uio piou
tiotfof principal vuluo.
lit the Sls It was, found that the
reewlue, or Intenufcdlate" oil was
.Upoful tor making gas. Tho Standard
OH -began to take on Interest In gas
mftKlilg and acquired considerable
holdings' in gas companies.
fdtu that time on coal gas making
.was negieciea ana gas on inaxmb
' -was develooed ranldlv. The Dried of
5 -Wit "intermediate" oil, for whlon
there was little nther use. waa cIhvid
p enough to .make tKls'ntvtbod of man-
i uiuviunt ecuuuuiiuui.
With the advent of the automobile
i and; later the popularity of the gas
engine, the demand for gasoline forced
this product into the loading position
or on proauots. aasoune was ex
tracted from tho "gas oil," leaving n.
residua still useful for gas making,
but' much Inferior to tho "Intor--taHate"
oil. '
'rka war Dorlod. with its Dressing
demand for fuels, brought perfection
J -.f a method of still further refining
by subjecting the oil to terrific heat
at lflgh prensure- i By thus "cracking"
, the Jell and getting further gasoline,
-the (producers obtained a higher price
".. thaw iravr rrit i t rr f nr tVirt 'rrnw
Qlli
PEOPLE PAY FOR THE "SCRAP
Diwn" np COAL OAS PLANTS.
lAanllmA tVi naft rf nil fnt malflnP
r I J uiv m we, w
. OT 04111.13 III 191 jvm
'oil was $03981 per sraiion, tne uon-
yaoUdatM waa making at tno Atnona
- . . f rr f r. a in - I.U - . t nntll t. (1
fc JJUll 0ID It. UUifl. lew ui mi n
!fc. tO CUDIC ICl'V HI UH Kilo.
ffiAlMg.' wheh the price of oil had ad-
Kv'anced to f f6SE per gullon. tho eamo
' plant's promiotion or coai -gas uau
s dropped to S.072.0N cubic feet of coal
casemlnst r.82 772 cubic feet of oil
gnu. Thus, Major Clark fellows, manu
facture of oil gas wan grcaly Increased
In the tare of a rising oil market,
while coal gas making wan cut down.
It Is true, tie status, that the price of
coal also advanced during that pc-i-luil,
but ho also did hi pne of coke.
halving the gas company a product In
ivnicn me nuvanccu vaiue .ouia on-
att the advanced cost of coal.
' Atlldav ts and briefs by Col. (lay
vi nrd and Major Clark allege th.U not
on ly were the gas comnanle tli c
i''fj nsollJated and the Ijreoklyn Itaion
- Klompelled to use oil gas in profer-
mCf to real gas, but they were placed
nt tlie mercy of the Standard Oil
n cftip In the llxlng of oil priees.
TVxitlmony In the gas suit by Wal
ter tiddeks, a Vice President of tho
ConsUlldatMl and in charge of bit) Ing
the g& oil tuner I9(H, shows the posi
tion .H" the Ooosolldated at) a lu
tomer. Mr. Atfdlcks teetlflcd that he
lMil wt.'ltten letters to compalnea
ither tiHO the MtanUard Ull com
piny of New Jersey, from when 'lie
O-msolld.titid buys, but had reoo.ved
iu favonihle ofTera of oil. He domed
that he ".had written these letters
"perfunctorily," but sld he did no
to abtmlutVly coBtlrm the fact ' t.iat
the Cnnsol.Slated turn to buy its rob
,11 of that Awmpany.
WHY CONSOLIDATED IS AT THE
MERCY O.F STANDARD OIL.
In 1917-1HS. when the Consolidated
.vas paying 5 ftents to 6.86B cents per
allon to the tiandard Oil Company
of New Jersey, the Public Servlre
Oas Company, operating plants In
New Jersey, waa paying tho Gulf lle
flnlug Company 3.06 cants, plu
lighterage whloti brought the total
cost up to a maximum of 3.50 cents
per gallon.
The llrooklyn Onion Oas Company
while Uio d'onsolldated was buying
from the Standard Oil Company ft
New Jersey, wrote asking that com
pany to quote prices on gas oil. The
llrooklyn Union had been buying
from the Standard Oil Company of
New York. Mr. Addlcks wrote to the
Standard Oil Company of Now York,
among the companies ho asked to
quote for tho Consolidated.
The Standard Oil of New Jersey
tnplled to the llrooklyn Unlun that It
had no gas oil available for that
company. The Standard Oil Com
(any of New York Informed tho Con
solidated that It had no got oil avail
able for the Consolidated.
Thereafter, according to Major
Clark's records, the Standard Oil of
New Vork bought from the Standard
Oil of New Jersey. 51,000.000 rmllpn-
at km o.i, nnougii to run tne Brook
lyn I'nlon for about n year. This oil
or Its eqti'valent, which the Standard
of New Jersey refused to sell to thi
llrooklyn union and then fcold to th
Standard OH of Now York, the
Standard of New York thoreupon
sold to the Brooklyn Union.
As each cent In the gallon price of
oil repreente 4 centa In tho prlco of
1.000 feet of gas. Col. Hayward do
"lares It really is the "ndard O
that d'etates the prlco of gas. The
Standard can afrom to be indeponu
unt. because one gallon of gas oil
under the "crat'Ong" proceed, will
oroduce half a gallon or gasoline
This actually 1 wprth more on the
market than tno gallon or gas c:i
Tor thl reason, Col. Hayward ani
Major Clark beljeve. tho Standard
Oil la lon'ng Interest In gas com
panies and Is collecting "all the
trafilc will bear" until tlie companies
are forced back Into the coal gun
field.
fiB.V. DAIVMNM MISTAKE.
(From 111 St. Uaii IVt-DuHtcjh.)
When he says It a not a Repub
lican war or a Democratic war Charles
a- Dawes makes It evident that he
does tiot read alt the important uter
Ances of our great men. DM not young
Theodore Itoosevdt tell us last summe
that the Republicans won the war 7
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Dark Russia' Calfskin; '
Perforated on Strap
and Vamp, Military Heel.
$0-00
An advance showing of another
typical Cammeyer style for Spring,
at an attractive price.
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IT NEW FROCKS OF CREPE DE CHINE,
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shouldered belted
aodel as illustrated
of heavy black
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